Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject for the debate will be: "Resolved, that this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility." The same subject was used for the debate on March 14 in which Harvard defeated Dartmouth. Tomorrow night, the Harvard affirmative team will meet Yale at 8 o'clock in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. At the same time, the Harvard negative will meet the Princeton affirmative team at Princeton, and the Yale affirmative team will debate with Princeton at New Haven...
...Alarm written large upon an ordinarily phlegmatic countenance...
Scream after scream issued from a kitchen near Jericho, L. I. The door opened, a man entered, alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror...
...first debate over held between the two colleges, Harvard defeated Dartmouth last Saturday night at Banover, taking the negative side of the question: "Resolved, that this house views with alarm the present tendency of eastern colleges to stress the standards of business and professional utility in college education...
...evening, kept or broke the peace is a matter of opinion. That they enforced obedience to Parietal Rule No. 4, however, there is not the slightest doubt. Plainly it was a public demonstration that the greatest good of the greatest number shall be maintained, even at the sacrifice of alarm clocks, soap, bottles, and hair brushes, not to mention window panes, vibrating with contrapuntal syucopation...